Magweno
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I'm an illustration graduate who just moved home to live with Mum! Mum's always wanted to run a small business off quail but works offshore, and I love birds, so building an aviary and buying a few only seemed sensible. It was when the guy I bought the four adults from suggested I borrow his incubator then gave me 19 quail eggs, 4 chicken eggs and a turkey egg to hatch that things got interesting 
A month or so later I now have 13 quails including the original 4, three chickens and a beautiful stag (I've been told) turkey.
The quails are japanese coturnix and texan A&Ms, the chickens are two marans and a maran/something cross and the turkey is a double breasted bronze. I can't leave the 'babies' alone and watch them incessantly, so my paranoia that my amateur poultry knowledge could cause them health problems naturally lead me here!
The chickens (Guillemot, Dino and Baba) and the turk (Sir Tinsel Thunderfist Smithe) all have little sniffles, which the chicks have had from a young age, but this weird "hurricane" weather we've been having has lead me to moving them inside the garage and putting them under a lamp again (which they love and do "dead chick pose" - a favourite of theirs). I've also put some ACV in their water which I hear should clear it up quickly.
Attached image is quails doing 'dead chick pose' age less-than-a-week. After chatting to some other keepers I think it's just sunbathing. They had plenty of room to get out from under the light in the brooder but still lay under it stretched out like this, it scared me silly! I thought they had all died! Must have been a nasty shock for them waking up to my panic stricken face.
-Mads
A month or so later I now have 13 quails including the original 4, three chickens and a beautiful stag (I've been told) turkey.
The quails are japanese coturnix and texan A&Ms, the chickens are two marans and a maran/something cross and the turkey is a double breasted bronze. I can't leave the 'babies' alone and watch them incessantly, so my paranoia that my amateur poultry knowledge could cause them health problems naturally lead me here!
The chickens (Guillemot, Dino and Baba) and the turk (Sir Tinsel Thunderfist Smithe) all have little sniffles, which the chicks have had from a young age, but this weird "hurricane" weather we've been having has lead me to moving them inside the garage and putting them under a lamp again (which they love and do "dead chick pose" - a favourite of theirs). I've also put some ACV in their water which I hear should clear it up quickly.
Attached image is quails doing 'dead chick pose' age less-than-a-week. After chatting to some other keepers I think it's just sunbathing. They had plenty of room to get out from under the light in the brooder but still lay under it stretched out like this, it scared me silly! I thought they had all died! Must have been a nasty shock for them waking up to my panic stricken face.
-Mads
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